State and National Standards

The Being an American Essay Contest is easy to integrate into your lesson plan. The contest meets state and national standards in History, Civics, Government and English. Listed below are the national standards as well as the state standards in the 2006-2007 contest states. Additional standards will be added as more states are included in the contest.

National:
NCHS: Era 3, Standard 3
CCE: IIB1, IID3, VA1, VC1, VC2, VD1, VD2, VD3, VD4
NCSS: Strands 2, 3, 4, and 10

Kansas:
Civics/Government 1,2,3,4
History 1,2,3,4

Texas:
US 1, 7, 17, 19
USG 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17

Virginia:
VUS.4, 5, 14
GOVT.1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 17